Ravindra V Kallianpur, a.k.a. Ravi Kallianpur, is a resident of Hammond, Louisiana and has extensive experience in US Higher Education. Born in 1959 to Smt. Saraswati and Shri Vithaldas Kallianpur, in the village of Hejamadi in the South Canara (Dakshina Kannada)district of Karnataka state in India, Ravi grew up in Goregaon, a western suburb of Mumbai,then known as Bombay. He first attended St. Thomas High School, and completed his SSC from St. Thomas Academy. He earned his Bachelor of Commerce (BComm) Degree from the University of Mumbai in 1979. After a career lasting 7 years in Mumbai, Ravi came to the US, to pursue his graduate degree in January of 1985 with Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, Louisiana. After completing his MBA May of 1987, he started his career in Information Technology with Southeastern Louisiana University as a User Services & Faculty Consultant in July of 1987.